Volume 23, Number 7 · April 29, 1976
Fighting Freud
By Frank Kermode
Out of My System: Psychoanalysis, Ideology, and Critical Method
by Frederick Crews
Oxford University Press, 214 pp., $10.00
The winter number of Partisan Review contains an editorial comment entitled 'Freud in the Seventies,' in which it is maintained that the 'apostasy' of Frederick Crews from Freud—Crews having 'been one of the staunchest as well as one of the most flexible interpreters of psychoanalytic theory, particularly in relation to literature'—must be seen as an indication that the 'intellectual community' has almost completely lost faith in psychoanalysis.
Review, 3158 words
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